Faced with questions from MPs, Boris Johnson was like a blundering schoolboy | Martin Kettle

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His appearance at the Commons liaison committee saw the prime minister way out of his depth, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Boris Johnson signed off this afternoon by telling the Commons liaison committee how much he had enjoyed his first meeting with them. If that’s true, then either I’m a Dutchman or Johnson has a weird way of having fun. No wonder he has managed to go almost a year before attending Westminster’s most prestigious committee. He came determined to say nothing new about Dominic Cummings and more or less managed it, though it came at a cost.

 

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Wonder if there’s any space in Prince Andrew’s fridge for Cummings?

The headline goes a bit tough on school boys.

Note the high-pitched porcine lisping. He's losing it.

I think that's quite insulting to schoolboys.

Nope. Handled it well. How would you stand up to ridiculous questions without umming and amming. The guy is too polite

Double Dutch or you don’t like Dutchman?

What a mess, it's just laughable how incompetent and silly Bojo and his gang look - albeit it isn't really laughable because thousands have died due to this epidemic. We do live in extraordinary times. NoConfidenceBojoCabinet

What a mess, it's just laughable at how incompetent and silly Bojo and his gang look - albeit, it isn't really laughable because thousands have died due to this epidemic. We do live in extraordinary times. NoConfidenceBojoCabinet

Johnson has out trumped Trump We now have the most ridiculed world leader Embarrassing to watch him fail to answer any question

It baffles me how Brits can expect a bumbling oaf who can't even comb his hair to run the damned country!

should be ashamed. Refusing to publish 'Is Modern Slavery thriving in the UK the same as the Police who knelt on George Floyd neck until he died. So too Daily_Express & Southwark_News & MayorofLondon & LinkedIn & NurseryWorld & cohorts...

From Holland: what exactly does this expression mean,? 'If that’s true, then either I’m a Dutchman or Johnson has a weird way of having fun.'

Kettle calling pot

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